Anyone can spend six months a year in the EU, not many can actually afford to do that either monetarily or work wise.
The offer was up to 4 years, to attend University and or work, in whichever country a young person chose. A youngster from the UK had a choice from 27 countries, could have done repping on the French Atlantic coast or the Med in Summer and the French Alps in the winter.
We need the fruit pickers and bum wipers. Can’t let these young ‘uns escape nor enjoy the freedoms to move within Europe. C’mon get back on message. I’m alright Jack.
As a pre retirement present Sunak has put the economy on a “war footing”. Get qualified and get emigrating seems to be the message to the young. Sunak himself will be taking his kids to California before the balloon goes up!
Yes but with a visa it's possible to stay for a year and then renew it without much problem.
Except the the facts show there has been an increase in foreign student numbers by over 30% since 2017 which is as far back as I looked and it has increased every single year, EU numbers have dropped non EU rise by far more.
Not to work you can't. Unless it's a job that can't be done by a EU citizen. You need employers sponsorship for a start, at least 2 Ski companies packed up as they couldn't bring the staff they wanted to. The banking and finance lot cope well but for their high salary staff, local recruitment for the lower ranks.
And the numbers of British youth travelling to work and study abroad, (excluding those from NI, financed by ROI to keep Erasmus for NI) is???
According tor Google 40,000studying abroad in 2023 up from around 20,000 in 2014.
This is a recent sudden decline. They have been doing well ‘till now.
Not a replacement for Erasmus and some placements are as short as 7 days. Another world beating fudge then.
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